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If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
Advice: the world is how you see it. Don’t let anyone else’s image of it determine yours.
Advice: the world is how you see it. Don’t let anyone else’s image of it determine yours.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.
The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than read more
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
Be content read more
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,
And make use of your wings while you may.
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But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,
They at last found it dangerous play;
Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,
Only dazzle to lead us astray.
